Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
   1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See {On liking},
      below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

   2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some
      thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure;
      preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is
      an amusement I have no liking for.

            If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to
            any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into
            harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.
                                                  --Bacon.

   3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
      condition. [Archaic]

            I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
            have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
                                                  --Shak.

            Their young ones are in good liking.  --Job. xxxix.
                                                  4.

   {On liking}, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting;
      also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a
      place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking.
      [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

            Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
            . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance ?
                                                  --Hazlitt.